>>7697038
No, but you might not be Irish enough.

If you read it in an Irish accent you might like it though.

>>7697038
Of course not.

Of all the good reasons not to read it, that is not one of them.

>>7697050
Well, i mean, in my first language the book is called 'Portrait of the Adolescent Artist', the adolescent part kind of turned me off

>>7696996
I'd do anything to bend her over and smell and lick her asshole

>>7697008
I can make that happen. leave you email adress and I will contact you with paypal information.

dose it smell nice?

It's pretty obviously inspired by Lovecraft's work, every other thing he wrote is like that. Start with the short story Pickman's Model, then try Rats in the Walls.

yes that reminds me a lot of poe

Between a girl's thighs.

No ass

>>7696947
By avoiding HACK Vetriano at all costs
Peregrine Heathcote is worse, at least Jack has the excuse of being self taught and working class

agreed

>>7696931
Is this book a meme? I ask because my wife wants me to read it with her.

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>tfw he described kisses he received from mother

>>7696870
Have you ever even read any philosophy book, paper or journal ?

Depends what you mean. Most modern philosophers whom you would think of as "philosophers" and impressively so are academics of some kind. But academia is also filled with millions of workaday number crunchers and curators of Fichte's grocery receipts. There are impressive, self-educated, non-academic philosophers in the same sense as the impressive academic ones, but there are also millions of non-academic hacks and pop writers.

All modern philosophy is apologism for fringe political ideology. Since you're posting on 4chan it's safe to assume you're a neo-Nazi, and while that is indeed a fringe position it is not what philosophers are looking for.

STONER

I thought Santa Clause lived in the North Pole.

Yeats' poetry. Nothing is better on this theme.

Small Gods, because it's not a series.

Mort was cool. Series are overrated.

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>>7696783
The best are usually standalones (The Truth, Small Gods and Monstrous Regiment are awesome), but the Watch series is peppered with whodunit, faux hardboiled and even time travel elements that are difficult to dislike. Feet of Clay and Night Watch are great, but in general they are all OK until Vimes got actual superpowers and Willikins got retconned as some kind of conventional streetwise badass in the last one

>>7696782
What type of books are you asking for. Do you want insights into secret govt programs.
http://bookzz.org/book/609665/d4fdf7
Do you want mildly satanist early 20th century /x/ stuff?
http://bookzz.org/book/1996884/34959b
Collections of conspiracy shit?
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What subject matter do you want.

What you believe is the extent of the Western canon is actually a mountain plateau above clouds that obscure the infinitely larger landscape below. Most people will never even master the plateau, let alone venture beneath the clouds, and the few people who do the latter still end up doing it too late, by accident in their 40s, and realising there are actually about 646 guys they should have read if they were "interested in [philosophical topic]," and now they're too fucking old. And the few people who make it down there, and do so on time, have the entire process...
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>>7696916
I wanted to call you a redditfag but damn, that was well-said.

First learn the difference between intelligence and knowledge.

Nothing is necessary.

>>7696686
*preferable

start with greeks, read what you want from there, but dont be dumb. read the pre-requisite shit if there is some.

First person narrative is very late literary development in the history of the West, allowing more psychological complexity even than the psychological novel (also very late). It doesn't just presume inner complexity like the novel, it gives actual access to interiority.

It also presumes a certain topography of interiority. It shows the processes of doubting, deliberation, difficult choices, but also of "bad but understandable" behaviours - it lets you merge with and understand a character who nevertheless wants to do something that might in some exterior...
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You're such a great son
Asking us for advice on selling off your dead mothers things you're too much of a greedy fuck to donate. Piss off.

>>7696618
I did say donate too if you actually read my post anon.

I'm not asking for profit, I'm asking a way to get rid of these without literally throwing them out.

I figured people buy this kind of thing, because I wouldn't think local libraries would take paperbacks like these anymore.

And salvation army doesnt seem right either.

>>7696618
>here is my opinion and an insult, based on questionable moral values

I was about 14.

He would have loathed it.

>>7696600
I've had existential nightmares since i was four and just accepted them, rather reluctantly, as a part of my nature.

>>7696600
>Neoliberalism

here goes that buzzword again, why don't you define neoliberalism for me champ

Whatever you interpret it like.

He's "estranged." It's why it's sometimes translated as The Outsider.

It's a story about a man with none of the arbitrary connections to life that make up being human.

the books pretty blatantly obvious about itself. look at its opening line.

"Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure."

Apathy, detachment. Those are qualities that most people say are negative ones to have, but the book makes the appeal for you to try to understand that there are people who live outside of conventional ideology. He's a stranger to society, and he realizes through the weight of his punishment his own identity in relation to the society he coexisted with.

These are my thoughts three years after reading the book.